Katsushika Hokusai
Hotei
布袋図
- Medium
- Ink and colors on Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- 24.1 × 34.0 cm
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Provenance
- One leaf from an album of twelve paintings. The album's title slip records that in the Tenpo famine of 1836, when many lay fallen in the roads, Hokusai — then seventy-seven — conceived this album and by it barely kept himself fed.
About This Work
The free play of the brush
A remarkably dynamic composition. The unrestrained momentum of the brush, spreading to the very edges of the sheet, is Hokusai at his truest; one seems to see him delighting in the free play of his brush. The small sheet becomes a field for the moving hand.
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